Christian Hudon writes: > Introduce new tokens, called "alpha", "beta" and "pre", with sort ordering > > alpha < beta < pre < '' < number.
Already added to Summary[2]. I guess I only posted it to deb-policy, not deb-dpkg, though... Maybe I should have ? > We then have (taking as example the 2.0 pre Linux kernel series): > > 1.3.89 < .. < 1.3.99 < 2.0pre1 < 2.0pre2 < .. < 2.0pre17 < 2.0.0 Well, this case is special because that's not "2.0.0pre" but "2.0pre": $ dpkg --compare-versions 2.0pre1 '<<' 2.0.0 && echo yes || echo no yes This case is already covered in latest summary, too. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check <http://www.debian.org/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]